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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1929)
PAGE sixteen: This Week's Slogan: The Salem Paper Mill Has a Capacity of Over 220,000 Pounds Day; Steady Growth The Output Has Gone Up From 170,000 Pounds in 1927, and There Has Been Constant Improvement From the Very Beginning o SULPHITE MILL IS FUCTOH ITSELF One in Salem is Thoroughly . Up to Date in All Its Processes Each paper mill each as the one in Salem is in reality two mills, the sulphite plant and the paper making plant proper. There are many sulphite mills that do not manufacture paper, but pro duce only the raw products for mills that do. And many paper mills have no sulphite plants. The two are one in Salenw- Here the lord wood of" the log goes into the plant at. the river bank end and comes out finished paper at the shipping room, ready and routed for the world markets. The Salem plant has now fire tall digesters which take the wood converted into chips and makes the "cook," separating the lignin and other foreign matters from the cellulose, from which the sul phite papers are made the fin est 'product of the paper making art. The cellulose being cleaned and screened, it goes to the bleachers. The one here is a high density bleaching plant. . there are sev eral kinds. This is the best. Part of the bleached product Is pumped direct to the beaters or refiners, the rest going to wet machines to mak&pinto lap for storing. A Strange Spectacle When the cellulose goes Into the paper making machines it looks like water and it Is 99.7 water; all water, but three-tenths of one per cent. It is a marvel to pee what appears to be a stream Of water coming out at the ends of the big machines finished paper, wound into big rolls, to be cut up or rewound and flattened out into sheets as the market de mands. The wood being used by the Salem mill is now about 65 per cent hemlock, with less than 35 Per cent white fir, and a little epruce. - These woods produce about 60 per rent cellulose, or the raw material of paper, the rest lignin and waste. The managers of the Salem will know how to get the pitch out of the woods carrying pitch. and how to use a number of other woods found "nere to advantage; nut fr the present hemlock, white fir and spruce are the best for their uses. There is cellulose In every plant that has fiber and will stand up. It is contained in corn talks and all grain stalks, so the world will never be without paper; bu,t manufacturers will use what is cheapest and most rvailable wherever they are lo cated. There are four principal kinds of paper now. Only about 100 years ago there was only one; made from linen rags. Next came wood pulp paper, ground wood pulp paper, for newspapers, books, etc Then sulphite paper, the fin est of all, like that made in Sa lem. Then the soda wood process, . similar but different. Then the sulphate of kraft papers, using taw mill waste: making the coarser paper, like that used in - brown . envelopes. There is a fifth rather distinct kind, a semi-chemical pulp, o im partially "cooked." and then treated in a rod mill. It Is used in cartons. It utilizes more of the lignio than other processes; sav. Ing what has heretofore been par ti&lly or largely waste. - Som day. all the present pro cesses jWill be used in Salem, and all t the new ones, either wholly new of combinations of the pres processes for Salem, center of great present or possible raw sup- 'Rllea, and in other ways epeclatly well situated la this - respect Is bound to become a -paper manu facturing center. Wall board and box : paper -wril- ;be 'made here, from flax hives, and ether mater ials, and no doubt paper string, to say" nothing -of the by-prod ucta of: hemp and -other erops that are cerfalhvto'be commercialljytrown in thfti Taliejr. : .. . ' rhe, Oregon' Palp and -Paper company, owning the Salem. paper mill, have a large list v of local holders of Its common and prefer red' stock: -: -" Joe Raster Is general superin tendent and E, A. Weber : Is sul phite superintendent. ' The resi dent manager Is K. W. Heinleln. The traffic managers are P. Spencer' and Frank Kane: IVin con, and W. . Schumacher are in charge of the wood department, and R. Olson has charge of the order department. . Mrs. I. Knox is at the head of the billing department, and Mrs. B. Zobel is chief In stenographic work. Al A. Hamilton Is at the : bead of the auditing department, s P. W. Leadbetter is president, JL S..Flemlng secretary and treas nrer. and the following: are direc tors: Dr. B. L. steeves, Dr. M. Cv Flndley. William S. Walton. Wal ter E.,Keyes, Plttock Leadbetter, a; cronln Jr Tramaa - Collins, and H. G. Reed. . - PEOPLE KEEP U 1 The capacity of the Salem paper mill Is now oyer 220,000 pounds a day. It was brought up to 170, 000 in 1927, and to around 200.- 000 during 1928. The increase to 220,000 pounds or more was the major advance of last year. Many betterments and improvements and the adoption of numerous op eration methods speeding up and coordinating the mechanical pro cesses contributed to the result That is a distinct advance, consid ering the fact that no major ad ditions were made. It is a compli ment to the management and the efficiency of the forces of opera tives. The Salem paper mill has a pay roll or over 9(00,000 a year; pays for raw materials over a million and a half dollars, three-quarters of this for wood. Annual sales are above $3,000,000. More than 600 ears a month with raw materials are often handled. The mill em ploys about 400 people. With wood supply and in other ways it is di rectly responsible for upwards of 400 more. It uses over 8000 gal lons-of water a minute, ort about 12,0.00,000 each 24 hours, and has a filtering capacity of 16,000.000 gallons daily. It runs 24 hours a day every day in the year, except ing Sunday and some of the holi days, and the repair forces are busier on those days than on oth ers. The mill has 498 electric mo tors, one horse, capacity to 350; the connected load is 10,000 horse power; the lightning load 85 kil owatts. The steady load is over 4, 500 kilowatts an hour, running to over 5000. Six electricians keep up the "juice" equipment. The pulp plant of the mill re quires away above 6000 cords of wood a month, or over three and a half million board feet. Always Something Xcvr The mill will not stop growing; never has, since its first day. There is always some new ad vance on the tapis. Thia mill has been In opera tion nine years. The first car of paper for the market was shipped from the plant October 1, 1920. On that date The Statesman was printed from paper made at this mill from a trial run of wood pulp secured from a mill using ground pulp. News print is made from ground wood pulp. The sul phite process is used exclusively by the Salem mill. The company supplying Salem witu water pumps into the city mains an average of about 4,000,- 000 gallons a day. The maximum for July and August days average about 6,500,000 gallons. Note in the above that the Salem paper mm used on the average of about three times as much water as all Salem besides. The paper mill takes nearly a third of the "peak load" of elec tricity used in Salem. But it goes z Hours a day, and it therefore uses nearly as much electrical power as all the rest of the city combined; because the general load is light at meal hours, late at night, and at other times. MAN HUNT FAILS SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27 (AP) An Intensive man-hunt for "little Jake" Fleagle, known leader of the "Fleagle gang" of hold-up men and desperadoes and himself reputed "a killer" by po nce ana two other bandits who yesterday robbed the Rodeo bank of $3S,000 and killed a consta ble proved fruitless today though their battered, bloodstained car was found. The Oregon Statesman, one fuU year by mail anywhere In Oregon oniy ys.oo. Subscribe bow. Gideon Ottols Ccrapony Kaaafactmrers of . Vinegar, Soda Water, Fountain Supplies . Salens Ore. Oregon rape -Manufacturers of BOND LEDGER GLASS1NE GREASEPROOF, TISSUE - Support Oregon Products Specify "Salem Made' Paper for Your tfffltt Stationery The The Capital City I a Great Potential Paper Making Center "N A Paper Making Center T17HEN Major F. W. Leadbetter projected the Salem paper T V mill and deposited the first $50,000 to the credit of the Oregon Pulp and Paper company, to begin the construction program, he. made the statement that Salem was the center of the largest possible wood pulp supply In thia country And the unsophisticated thought he was "talking through his hat." He certainly was not. The local mill is turning out now 220,000 pounds of high grade papers a day, and it has touched only the fringe of the pulp wood supply. The inexhaustible forest reserve pulp wood supply inex haustible because of the "harvesting' rules that win allow the supply to perpetually renew itself is as yet untouched. Salem is bound to have more paper mills, and more kinds of paper mills. The world will always need paper, and paper is made largely from cellulose, and cellulose is found in every vegetable growth that has fiber and will stand up, from the forest giant to the garden weed. Paper will be made in Salem from straw and corn stalks ; from flax and hemp shives, and there is no telling how many other materials ; paper and paper board of many kinds. We will have rayon papers. We will dress the dandy and clothe the society queen with imitation satins and silks made from wood and other cellulose bearing growths. We will in this manner furnish the materials for dwellings. There is already a paper cult in Salem. It is capable of great developments. We are "on our way" to becoming a paper making center. But we are only a step in that direc tion, compared with the vistas that open up to the vision of the resourceful generations that are beginning to come onto the scene of action here. PIPER MU6 IS ' An'heury series. el miracles 1b being performed at the Salem pa per mill, in converting logs from the forest into finished products. Down by the Willamette's bank the. bark is removed by machine ry, the great growths reduced to chips, and these are dropped into the digester; and when it is filled sulphurous acid is run in, a cover clamped on, and the mass is rais ed to 300 degrees or more temper ature and a steam pressure of 70 pounds maintained for 10 to 20 hours this is the "cook." It is released from the digester under pressure, and thus the cellulose taken from the lignin. The cellu lose makes the paper; the lignfn Is waste, excepting for by-products such as mazing for making coars er papers. Then the cellulose is is bleach ed, then refined by "beaters," ready for the paper machines. Ev ery operation is a miracle. The paper machine takes the cellulose In a liquid stare and it flows onto an endless wire mesh cloth to which a shake is imparl ed, so that it is evenly distributed, and the water gradually removed. The cellulose sheet is transferred from the wire to the felts and is carried between the rolls of metal or hard rubber, and from these press rolls it goes on to the dry ers. These are large hollow iron cylinders around which the paper travels in contact with the face of the dryers. Heat is applied to the dryers and the paper comes out a finisher product, excepting for calendering to give it a firm tex ture and finish. Just Like That That sounds easy. It is not. It is a part of tne series oi miracies. The Salem mill has one big paper machine that makes a 126 inch roll, and one making a 117 inch roll, apd a third turns out a 100 Inch roll. In the finishing room there are eight cutters (one new one), and there are five trimmers and four re winders. There are 23 beaters Everything In BUILDING MATERIALS ' Cobb. & Mitchell A. B. Eelsay, Manager 849 8. 12Ui fiC FhoM eia Keep Tour Money" In Oregon Boy Monuments Made at Salem, Oregon Capital Monumental Works J. C Joaee A Cm Proprietors 11 Kinds ot Monumental ; Work : v'- : . Factory and Office: 1210 8. Commercial 8L Opposite IfO. O. T. . Cemetery, Box 21 . ' Phono CSt Salem, Oregon Pulp any H MIRACLE and Comp OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. There are three super calendar stacks tor finishing glaaslnea and one book stack for finishing high grade book paper. 1 1 a special showing of FORD LARS Monday TPHEN THB Ford car was first Introduced, there were but six body types. In the past year, this number has been increased to twelve, in keeping with the public's wishes and the Ford policy of constantly improving the car, mechanically and in beauty of lines, color and finish. Today, the Ford body types include the Roadster, Phaeton, Business Coupe, Standard Coupe, Sport Coupe, Tudor Sedan, Two-window Fordor Sedan, Three-window Fordor Sedan, Convertible Oregon, Sunday Morning, Western Paper Company Has Growim Past Year Very Much in Output The Plant Turns Out a and Its Finishing Capacity Has Made a Hundred Per Cent Gain . - o It Is one thing to turn out high trade papers. That is what the Salem paper mill does, in increas ing volume. It is another thing to take such manufactures, the finished product of the primary plant, and convert them into a large line of articles of utility and convenience for markets that need them in these finished forms, and to largely add to the One of the marvels is the mak ing of book or ledger paper here, and all the handsome papers you see in high class confectionery shops. In fact, the cellulose pro duced here is good enough to make rayon, or artificial silk. Some day, you may get a wood dress or suit of clothes from Sa lem, and be fitted out fit for a queen or a prince. All the paper mill buildings are well constructed; modern, hand some, and large with about 300 feet frontage on South Commer cial street, corner of Trade, and extending back, over 1000 feet, to the Willamette river; some of them being four stories high and over, and the towers running up to 100 feet high. Announcing L&i! JIIMr-lr-IIIIL Slip' aS'"''Sllf rr sp -Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - September 30 to October 5 Inclusive 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. ... Admission FREE .... VALLEY MOTOR CO. Center at Liberty Tel 1995 ford dealers mil be glad to send a car to your home or office ere wille no cha September 29, 1929 Converting Third More in Volume, volume of this class of products. That is what the Western Psper Converting company 1 Aoitg. The plant of the converting company is at Front and D streets, Salem, in a substantial building 100 by 240 feetr, with a twin building of the same sixe planned for the not distant future; with a present working force ot 60 to 100, and prospects for doubling the number before very long. Grow nag All The Tim This is the only plant west of the Mississippi making bonbon, bakery and all kinds of crimp cups. There is another exclusive line, the making of foil wrap pers for ice cream and candy, and another in cellophane containers. Glassine bags are turned, out in various styles. The finishing ca pacity of the plant ln the making of bags large and small has been doubled in the past year. The capacity of the whole-plant has grown at least a third in that time. Food wrappers of all kinds are made. Adding machine and cash register rolls are turned out in great quantities. Many pack ing plants get all their printed meat wrappers from Salem. THE TOWN SEDAN one of tne newest Cabriolet, There) are machines that rule both aides of the paper, both ways. Many thousands of school children along- the coast are using this paper In penmanship exercises and for examination! papers, etc Getting larger Market New branch sales offices are being opened in Dallas, Texas, and Denver, Colorado. Sales are being extended to the middle west, and in the Philipines and the Central American 'countries. There la constant growth, and room for Tastly more expansion: what may be termed "unlimited room." , Warren Gilbert, nationally known cartoonist, is in charge of the art department. That end or the plant, In which the photo engraving is also done, is a most Glassmobile Enclosures FOR ALL TOURING CARS AT SMALL COST Complete Protection from akin and Storm Tops Curtains Auto Glass Hain's Top & Body Shop 267 S. COMMERCIAL ST SALEM Ford can Town Sedan, Town Car and Station Wairoi an unusually wide selection. So that you may see all of these Doay types, in all trie new colors, a Special Ford Showing will be held all this week at the . The hours are from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Admission is free. This showing is of particular interest because it. is the first time it has been possible to obtain all the new Ford cars, in all the new colors, for display in this city. to take you to this special showing, interesting place, and in facfl every part of the work Is inter esting, with the operation of machines that seem to do about everything but think. The president of the Western, Paper Converting company is C, P. Beyerl; vice president, Lloyd Riches; secretary, Joseph Prud homme; treasurer, Thos. A, Rob erts. The main sales office- of the company is in San Francisco, In eharge of Lloyd Riches. The doubling of the size of the plant and of the forces employed will not set any limit to the ex pansion that will eventually take place. There will be progressive doublings. Read the Classified Ads. Saturday